Hartsville High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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SENIORS Calvin Boonf. Orr Student General Association 40. '4 1. 42. '4 ; Home Room Club '40. 41. '42. 43; F;ootball '43: Glee Club '4 1. '42. '43: Victory Corps '43: Commercial Club '42, '43: All Boys' League '40. Myrtle Lee Outlaw MERT Student General Assoc ation '40. 41. 42. 43; Home Room Club '40. 4 1. '42. 43. Vice- President '42: Program Committee '4 1: Junior Homemakers Association '40. 4 1. '42: All Girls' League '40. '4 1 : Victory Club '43: Commercial Club '42. ‘43. Orgla Powell Punk'' Student General Association '40. 4 1. 42. '4 3, Vice-President 43; Home Room Club. President 40. Vice-President '4 1, President '42. '43; Student Council ‘40. 42. '43: National Junior Honor Society 40. '4 1 ; National Honor Society '43; Girls' Athletic Association '40. '4 1. '42. '4 3. Secretary '4 3: Basketball '40: Tennis 40: Soccer 41. 42: Senior Store Committee '4 3; Commercial Club '42. '4 3: Victory Corps '4 3: Treasurer Sophomore Class '4 1: Vice-President Junior Class '42. Claude Register Blondie Student General Association '40. '41. '42. '4 3: Home Room Club '40. 41. '42. '43: Football 41. '43: Band '41. 42: Glee Club '40. '42. 43; Commercial Club '42. '43. Samuel Leonard Scott Student General Association '39. '40. '41. '42. 43: Home Room Club '39. '40. '41. 42. '43: Midget Basketball '39: Commercial Club '4 1. 42. Raymond Odis Stokes “Pete ' Student General Association 40. 41. ’42. ’4 3: Home Room Club '40. 41. 42. '43; Football 41. '42 (Captain 42): Baseball 41. '42 (Captain 42); Commercial Club '42. '43; Victory Corps '43; Agriculture '40. ‘41 (Secretary 41). Margaret Stuckey Student General Association '40. '4 1. '4 2. '4 3; Home Room Club '40. '4 1. '42. '4 3: Basketball 40. '41. '42; Soccer '40. '4 1. '42 (Man ager). '43: Tennis 40. '42: Girls' Athletic Association 40. '4 1. '42 (Secretary). '43 (President): Senior Store Committee '43; Junior Homemakers' Association 40. '41 (Treasurer): Winner Junior English District Contest: National Junior Honor Society '40. '41: National Honor Society 43: Commercial Club 42. '43: Freshman Orientation Committee '41: Commencement Marshal '42: RETROSPECT Staff (Associate Editor). Martha Kathleen Turner Student General Association '40. '41. '4 2. '4 3: Home Room Club '40. '41. '42. 43; Junior Homemakers' Association '40. '41. '42: All Girls' League '40. 41: Victory Corps ’43: Commercial Club '42. '43. Lillian Bernice Twitty Student General Association '39. '40. '41. '4 3 : Home Room Club '39. '40. '41. '43: Athletic Association 39. '40. '41: Soccer '39. '40. '41: Girls’ Glee Club 39. 40. '41. '43: Library Club '39; Dramatics Club '39: Home Economics Club '39; Commercial Club '41. '4 3: Cheerleader '4 3; Victory Corps '4 3: All Girls' League '40. '41. Elizabeth Christine Walters 'Tenner' Student General Association 40. 4 1. 4 2. '4 3: Home Room Club '40. '41. 42. '43: Junior Homemakers Association '40. '4 1. '42. '4): Commercial Club '42. '43. Virginia Winburn Student General Association '40. '4 1. '42. 43: Home Room Club '40. '41. '42. '43. Vance White Student General Association '39. 40. 41. 42. 43: Home Room Club '39. '40. 41. '42. '43: Football 40: Basketball 40. '4 1. '4 2: Commercial Club 41, '42. '43. Not Photographed Robert Radeord Sarah Anne Thatcher Page T icenty

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CLASS HISTORY As the Class of 19 0 approaches the climax of graduation, it would be interesting perhaps to review for a few moments the highlights in its existence. From the very first, this class, in spite of the turbulent period that has marked its career, has been notable for its spirit of unification. Every member has always entered wholeheartedly into whatever the group undertook to achieve. The correct mental attitude of cooperation and helpfulness toward the school and school authorities has distinguished this group. Our class. 240 strong, started to school on a bright September morning in the fall of 1932. Although this was the peak year of the depression, conditions in the Hartsville schools were kept more stable than in most other schools of the State. One reason for this was that, even though salaries were cut. they were never completely stopped. Our teachers had fewer financial worries and were, therefore, able to do better work, so that we. their mischievous young charges, were sublimely unconscious of the gloom hanging just over our heads. Of the 240 students that entered the first grade. 129 graduated from grammar school. Because of the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the spring of 1939. we were not allowed to have the graduation exercises from grammar school that had been the privilege of all the other classes before us. This was a particularly great disappointment to everyone who had looked forward to a special part in the exercises. In spite of this restriction, however, we had a short program out under the huge oak tree on the school grounds where we received our certificates. When this group of 129, together with 56 others from outlying districts, entered high school, it continued on its way just as it had done in grammar school, except on a larger and wider scale. Its members entered into the larger field of high school life with the same zeal that had distinguished them in their first seven school years and quickly adjusted themselves to the new conditions around them. In the freshman year Orgla Powell. Jis president, piloted the class forward: in the sophomore year Gordon Moore took over this office, and Merle Davis was chosen head of the junior class. In its senior year. Harrell Gardner became president of the class. Our entrance into high school in the fall of 1939 had been marked by another catastrophe, one of world-wide significance, for it was on September 1. 19 39. that the Nazis marched into Poland. Already people were talking about the prospect of America's entering the war. Although this global conflict has brought about many changes in the high school, the members of our war time class have been able to continue their education along almost the same lines as those of previous years. During their junior and senior years, they voted not to have the Junior-Senior banquet. This banquet has always meant a great deal to every class, but they were consoled in the thoughts that in their small way they were contributing toward the war effort. In the ninth grade, the students wrote themes entitled. My Chosen Vocation. Most of the vocations were the ordinary ones of teachers, interior decorators, florists, doctors, nurses, news reporters, secretaries, beauty operators, farmers, and business men. Almost all the peacetime careers were represented. Only one boy mentioned a career in the army or navy and this was only from a desire to see the world. Now. we do not know what peacetime work to prepare for. because we do not know what kind of world this will be after the war. Long range planning is almost impossible. Girls are joining the WAACS. WAVES, and SPARS. Boys are entering various branches of the armed forces. Because of the war. this class has lost almost one-half of its membership in the four high school years. This loss is due to two reasons. First, pupils themselves are going into war work. Second, a number of students are kept at home because their fathers and mothers are doing some kind of work that has opened up to them because of the war. Of the 31 boys starting out in the Senior Class, we have lost eight. One boy made enough units to enter college for the second semester. Two boys entered the armed forces and the others entered various types of defense work. Of the 185 boys and girls who entered high school in the fall of 19 39 at the beginning of the war. 75 have survived. We have come a long way since the depression year of 1932. We have braved the perils of disease, only to come out in the midst of the most merciless conflict the world has ever known. Yet we have always found the courage to laugh: for in our hearts we have the high hopes of youth that the journey is. after all. just beginning and that henceforth our ways may be the ways of peace, freedom, and happiness. —MERLE Davis. Class Historian '43 Page Twenty-two